Woman who was suffering headaches had a spider nestled in her ear [video]

Anyone who, like the writer, is scared of spiders probably shouldn't watch this video, as a doctor coaxes a spider out of a woman's ear canal.

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A woman, named only as Lekshmi L., visited her doctor in India because she was suffering from a severe headache and tingling sensation in her head. Lekshmi lives in India and had reportedly fallen asleep on her veranda. When she awoke, she felt a painful blockage in her right ear. 

When the doctor examined her, he made the shocking discovery that a spider was living inside her ear. Dr. Santosh Shivaswamy of the Columbia Hospital then used a light to slowly coax the eight-legged critter out of her ear canal. Dr. Shivaswamy filmed as the spider slowly emerges, revealing its horrific little face to the world.

As noted by the New York Post, Dr. Shivaswamy said it’s pretty common for people to visit the emergency room due to the presence of a foreign object in their ear. He said it is a simply procedure to remove those objects.

 “However, when a living insect makes its way inside a human ear, the patient’s anxiety makes it difficult to continue the procedure,” he added, saying it was a rare experience to see a live spider moving around inside someone’s ear canal.

As for Lekshmi, she was naturally terrified when she could feel the movement of the spider in her ear. However the acute earache she was experiencing, followed by sharp pains was so uncomfortable that she couldn’t think of anything and had to get the doctor to do something about it.

However, she added she was petrified when the doctor confirmed there was a spider in her ear. What happened to the little arachnid after its removal is not reported.

Anyone brave enough can watch the little critter emerging from her ear in the video below.